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Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund
The Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund is one of the four Nedbank Affinities and supports projects that focus on helping needy children in South Africa. There are four strategic focus areas of the NMCF, those being child wellbeing (orphaned, abandoned and vulnerable children); skills development among out-of-school youth; integration of disabled children; leadership and excellence through a focused advocacy and knowledge management programme.
Website: www.nedbankchildren.co.za
The Arts and Culture Trust
The Arts and Culture Trust is one of the four Nedbank Affinities and focuses on the following areas of development of arts and culture in South Africa: job creation, creative skills, cultural understanding, cultural tourism and markets, and arts, culture and heritage in the disciplines of theatre, craft, community art, music, multi-disciplinary, visual arts, craft, arts education, arts administration, literature, dance, and heritage.
Website: www.nedbankarts.co.za
The Green Trust
The Green Trust is one of the four Nedbank Affinities and plays a key role in community-based conservation projects within South Africa, in the following areas: Conservation Education (urban greening, Eco-Schools); Marine Programme (turtle monitoring, SA Sustainable Seafood Initiative, Coffee Bay mussel harvesting); Freshwater Programme (rehabilitation of riparian zone in the Kouga River Valley); Species of Concern (Wildlife Trade programme, cheetahs in Namibia, southern ground hornbills, oxpeckers, wild dogs in KZN, Karoo blue crane, Juliana’s golden mole, Brenton blue butterfly); and the Eco-Regions Programme (Biodiversity and Wine Initiative, national grasslands initiative).
Website: www.nedbankgreen.co.za
The Sports Trust
The Sports Trust is one of the four Nedbank affinities and supports community-based development of sport and disabled sport in South Africa by providing and upgrading sporting facilities in underprivileged areas; focusing on development of sporting talent; the provision of basic sports equipment, facilities and training in outlying/disadvantaged areas.
Website: www.nedbanksport.co.za
Cotlands
Originally a residential care facility for young children, Cotlands has evolved into a national organisation caring mostly for HIV impacted children and their families. Care extends across the whole continuum – from identifying and supporting vulnerable children in the community to end stage hospice care for children dying of AIDS. Expanded services include home based care, community development and capacity-building services in the field of HIV/AIDS.
Website: www.cotlands.org.za
Habitat for Humanity South Africa
Habitat for Humanity South Africa is a non-profit, non-governmental Christian housing organisation dedicated to the elimination of poverty housing in South Africa and committed to making decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
Website: www.habitat.org.za
Reach For A Dream Foundation
The Reach For A Dream Foundation works with children with life threatening diseases. The Foundation strongly believes in the power of dreams and tries to encourage children of all income groups and any race, colour or creed to fight their diseases by fulfilling a dream for these children.
Website: www.reachforadream.org.za
SA Red Cross Society (SARCS)
Over a century of serving the most vulnerable communities and fostering human dignity throughout South Africa – Disaster Management, Health and Care, Humanitarian Values and Restoring Family Links - wherever there are people in need, the SA Red Cross Society is there hard at work. "Always needed, always there."
Website: www.redcross.org.za
National Council of SPCAs (NSPCA)
The NSPCA serves as the Federation of currently 97 SPCAs in South Africa. The council has four nationally operational units - Farm animals, Wildlife, Research ethics and Society liaison.
Website: www.nspca.co.za
People Opposing Women Abuse (POWA)
POWA's mission is to be a powerful, multi-skilled service provider, specialising in the eradication of violence against women to enhance women's quality of life.
Website: www.powa.co.za
Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA)
CANSA’s objective is to substantially reduce the impact of cancer by promoting health in all communities within South Africa, through advocacy and the sustainable facilitation of research, prevention, early detection and care.
Website: www.cansa.org.za
Age-in-Action
Age-in-Action is a developmental organisation focussing on capacity building and training of senior citizens, particularly in marginalised and rural areas, in an effort to improve their living conditions and make them more aware of their rights.